Stay in a luxury hotel in Bruges with Small Luxury Hotels of the World to enjoy the medieval atmosphere of mellow cobbled streets. Listen to the lapping of water on canal boats as they pass under arched bridges festooned with flowers.
Luxury things to do in Bruges
Visit the lace museum to see how delicate Bruges flower work is made with wooden bobbins. Climb up the 366 steps of the belfry above the medieval Cloth Hall for a city panorama. You can get your breath back on an exclusive carriage ride past the cream and white buildings of the Burg Square. Michelangelo’s white marble Madonna and Child is in the Church of Our Lady, with its painted medieval tombs.
Luxury shopping in Bruges
Browse the exclusive boutiques under the arches of the arcaded Galerie. A handkerchief of delicate rose-point lace takes three days of skilled needlework and makes an exquisite souvenir. Take your pick among the tempting collection of luxurious leather bags made by master craftsmen Delvaux. Buy handmade decorations from the covered wooden stalls when the Christmas market takes over the main square and fills it with fairy lights.
Gourmet Bruges
Taste beer from Bruges’ boutique breweries, De Gouden Boom and De Halve Maan, and try the fruity Christmas tipple Cuvée van de Keizer. The Westvleteren Trappist monastery produces three exclusive brews without labels, available only at the abbey and its café. Follow a dinner of traditional Flemish beef in beer with a dessert of nutty waffles smothered in chocolate sauce and ice cream. Chocolate boutiques sell pralines with unexpected fillings such as wasabi.
Book a Bruges luxury hotel with Small Luxury Hotels of the World to revel in world-class collections of Flemish old masters and a historic centre unchanged for centuries. Relax in a luxurious waterside hotel or indulge in a leisurely breakfast in a 15th-century mansion.